Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Our own life has to be our message.

Mindfulness is the quality and power of mind that is aware of what's happening—without judgment and without interference.

Wisdom is not something we have to strive to acquire. Rather, wisdom arises naturally as we open our hearts to the truth of what is.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce.

The door of your heart can only be opened from the inside.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

All that appears and exists, all of samsara and nirvana, has one ground, two paths, and two results. This is the magical display of awareness and unawareness.

Though the view should be as vast as the sky, keep your conduct as fine as barley flour.

When mindfulness is weak, defilements are strong; when mindfulness is strong, defilements are weak.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

Altruism is not a luxury, it is a necessity for the survival of humanity.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

Our basic nature is pure awareness that simply cognizes experience. Everything else is temporary and adventitious.

Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is the space of possibility.

Don't expect or desire anything. Just keep noting whatever arises in the present moment.

In meditation, we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

Mindfulness means keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher.

Personal experience is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

The path of insight is a path of discovery, not a path of creation. We are discovering what is already there.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

The cultivation of loving-kindness has the power to transform enmity into amity, hostility into hospitality.

The mind is intrinsically empty. It's empty of all that we perceive as being intrinsically "me" and "mine."

Nothing can harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

Life is like a cup of tea. It's all in how you make it.

When we see the nature of the mind, we see that we are not our thoughts.

The teaching of the Buddha is based on two truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. Without understanding the relationship between these two, the deeper meaning of the Buddha's teaching cannot be understood.

Just observe whatever arises. Don't try to create anything, and don't reject anything.

The Four Noble Truths are not mere doctrinal propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our lives.